Syriza will not easily sweep the policies of austerity aside, but there is a palpable feeling on the continent that a tide is turning
By Conn Hallinan / Foreign Policy in Focus
Almost before the votes were counted in the recent Greek elections, battle lines were being drawn all over Europe.
While Alexis Tsipras, the newly elected prime minister from Greece’s victorious Syriza Party, was telling voters that “Greece is leaving behind catastrophic austerity, fear, and autocratic government,” Jens Weidmann, president of the German Bundesbank, was warning the new government not to “make promises it cannot keep and the country cannot afford.”
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